One such fantasy he described involved a woman posing as a witch while a mob of angry villagers prepares to hang her: "The girl could write, 'I'm shivering from fright. They're pulling me to the noose. I can feel the rope already on my neck'," he testified.

Edward Vas, Valle's defence attorney, will argue that the prosecution has failed to show there was a "true second participant" but instead just role-playing internet friends.

Prosecutors conceded that Valle never met the accused co-conspirators in person and that no women were harmed.

Concluding its case, prosecutors showed the jury images and videos of websites devoted to torturing and eating women.

The jury also heard how Valle had used the internet to look up: "How to tie up a girl", "Human meat recipes", "How to chloroform a girl", "I want to sell a girl slave", "How to cook a girl", "Death fetish" and "Huge cooking tray".